My video explains the switching and goes through to show how the tone controls are acting. The middle one has somehow become a master volume somehow--almost. It does seem to not affect the bridge in some instances. The outer one has a significant top-end roll off for the bridge, but only in some switching configurations, and does nothing in others. If the volume and tone thing can be worked out (even more ideally to a single knob each), I'd consider this a solved matter. If it can indeed be setup as single vol/single tone, then what good use could the second tone knob be put to?
I'm living in a downmarket town with one music store and they outsourced the replacement to a specialist guy a few towns over. I've been in touch with him about this but he has a personal matter keeping him busy for weeks. Maybe some eyes here can spot something for us to look into when he can return?
https://youtu.be/fOvxUV-jVMI
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Then there is the question of how I might just actually achieve the following if the above config is coming up short:
- One volume, one tone.
- Five default Strat tones plus:
- Two more to make up the "7 tone" thing with B+N, and B+M+N activated.
- Mini '59 split to single-coil--would provide single-coil variations on the above.
- Mini '59 OOP ala Peter Green. This is not a critical option but it would give me a lighter neck tone...I don't really like the thicker neck tones. Would dig it if I could just get a high pass filter in there.
And then I learned about the Deaf Eddie Chromacaster this week... maybe that's the ticket?
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